The order of time / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.

"Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers...

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Main Author: Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- (Author)
Other Authors: Segre, Erica (Translator), Carnell, Simon, 1962- (Translator)
Other title:Ordine del tempo. English
Format: Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • Perhaps time is the greatest remaining mystery
  • Part I. The crumbling of time. Loss of unity
  • Loss of direction
  • The end of the present
  • Loss of independence
  • Quanta of time
  • Part II. The world without time. The world is made of events, not things
  • The inadequacy of grammar
  • Dynamics as relation
  • Part III. The sources of time. Time is ignorance
  • Perspective
  • What emerges from a particularity
  • The scent of the Madeleine
  • The source of time
  • The sister of sleep.